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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 253d   View pdf image
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        March Court               1734                253

and bringing up of the aforesaid Bastard Child afd and of and from all other suits Charges troubles and demands
whatsoever touching or Concerning the same &a


His Lordship
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Frances Johnson
 Somerset County ss.t  The Jurors for the Right Honourable
the Lord prop.ry that now is for the body of Somerset County
af.d upon their Oath do present Frances Johnson late
of stepney parish  in the County af.d Spinster the first day
of March in the year of our Lord God seventeen hundred thirty and four
at the parish af.d in the County af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court
did commit fornication with a Certain Stephen Lank and did permit the
same Stephen Lank then and there to have carnal knowledge of her body
and to beget then and there a bastard Child on the body of her the Same
Frances to the high displeasure of Almighty God to the evil Example
of all others in such Case Offending contrary to the peace of the said
Lord Proprietary that now is his good rule and Government and against
the form of the act of assembly in such Case lately made & provided &.a
Test   Isaac Handy         On the backside of the foregoing bill of Indictment
it was Endorsed as Followeth Viz.t              Billa Vera Rob.t Jones foreman

    Thereupon Command was given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he should
take the said Frances Johnson if &.a to answer &.a and afterwards to witt the
Eighteenth day of March Ann Dom one thousand Seven hundred and thirty
four before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now here
held at dividing Creek in the same County Came the said Frances Johnson
in her proper person according to a Certain Recognizance by her & her
Securitys before that time Acknowledged and had a hearing of the Indictment
af.d and thereupon she is Instantly demanded how she would acquitt
herself of the premisses af.d so as af.d above upon her Imposed; says that
she is guilty thereof and is willing to pay her fine for the fact af.d &.a
Whereupon all and Singular the premisses by the Court here seen heard &
fully understood         It is Considered by the Court here that the said Frances
Johnson pay unto his Lordship the Lord prop.ry for her fine by the Court
hereupon her Imposed for and by Occasion of the premisses af.d whereof
in form af.d she is Convict thirty Shillings Current money for the use of
the County af.d and that the said Frances Johnson be taken to satisfie his
Lordship of the fine af.d &.a            Whereupon the said Frances Johnson
is ordered to give Security for the payment of the Severall Officers Fees due
                                                                                                          (by


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
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